Todos Podemos Ayudar Todos debemos poner de nuestra parte para mantener la mosca mediterrnea fuera de California.

Simplemente siguiendo estas recomendaciones, ayudaramos en el esfuerzo: Viajeros no deberan traer a California productos agrcolas prohibidos, ya que pueden ser portadores de la plaga. Antes de traer o enviar productos agrcolas obtenga un permiso. Si donde vivimos se ha puesto en efecto una cuarentena, debemos seguir las reglas y restricciones impuestas. Tal como mantener su cosecha casera dentro de la zona de cuarentena. Permita la entrada a su propiedad a inspectores agrcolas para colocar trampas de deteccin. No transporte productos frescos fuera de la zona de cuarentena. Si quisiera trasladar productos agrcolas fuera de la zona asegurese que ellos estn enlatados, cocidos, congelados o conservados

County Agricultural Commissioners Office California Department of Food and Agriculture United States Department of Agriculture

Mediterranean Fruit Fly

Impact on You

The life cycle of the Medfly begins when the adult female pierces the skin of fruits and vegetables and lays from 1 to 10 eggs per fruit. The eggs hatch and develop into maggots, which feed on the fruit pulp. Decaying, infested fruit usually falls to the ground, and the maggots leave the fruit and burrow into the ground to pupate. Adult Medflies emerge from the ground and mate, completing the cycle. La mosca hembra ataca fruta madura, perforando la cscara. La hembra deposita de uno a diez huevecillos en el fruto. Despus de unos das los huevecillos maduran y se desarrollan como larva (gusano). El gusano se alimenta dentro la pulpa del fruto y el fruto infestado se pudre y se cae al suelo. El gusano se penetra en la tierra y se transforma en pupa. La mosca adulta tras aproximadamente ocho das, emerge de la tierra y se aparea completando el ciclo vital.

Escoja un Futuro Libre de Moscas Mediterrneas Se necesita la cooperacin de todos para que la mosca mediterrnea no entre a California. Si esta peste se estableciera en nuestro estado, todos seriamos afectados. La prevencin contra la mosca mediterrnea empieza con Ud. necesitamos su ayuda!

Help Keep Medfly Out of California

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Everyones cooperation is needed to keep Medfly from entering California. If this pest were to become a permanent resident in our state, everyone would feel the impact. Medfly prevention begins with you - we all need your help!

California Department of Food and Agriculture www.cdfa.ca.gov

MOSCA MEDITERRNEA DE LA FRUTA
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Cmo le afecta a usted?

PHOTO: ART GILBERT, CDFA

PHOTO: JAVAID IQBAL, CDFA

Homegrown fruit in Medfly-infested areas often looks like this. If the pest made its way into fruit and vegetablegrowing parts of California, supplies of produce would go down and prices would go up. Fruta de rboles frutales caseros frecuentemente se ven as. Si la peste llegara a las zonas agrcolas de California, la oferta de frutas y verduras se vera reducida, y sus precios serian mas altos.

Medfly inspectors place traps like this to detect the presence of Medflies. Inspectores agrcolas colocan trampas para detectar la presencia de moscas.

County, State, and Federal workers cooperate to inspect commercial and backyard produce for Medfly maggots. Empleados del Municipio, Estado y Gobierno Nacional trabajan cooperativamente en la inspeccin de productos agrcolas caseros y comerciales con el fin de detectar la presencia de larvas.

Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly) is everyones problem. Its not just farmers who will have trouble if Medfly gets a toehold in California - its your problem, too. Medfly is one of the worlds most destructive insect pests. It attacks more than 250 kinds of fruits, nuts, and vegetables, many of which grow in home gardens and orchards. If Medflies became established in California, they would devastate commercial agriculture and make it more difficult and expensive for you to grow fruit, nuts, and vegetables in your own yard. Your homegrown produce would look less appealing and be poorer in quality. Many fruits, nuts, and vegetables would drop and rot before they were ripe. Farmers and home gardeners would need to use more pesticides to keep crops free of Medfly maggots. Successful organic gardening would not be feasible in such areas. Consumers - and thats all of us - would pay more for fruits and vegetables because of higher production costs and reduced yields. Medfly could cost consumers an additional $825 million, nationwide, per year.

La mosca mediterrnea de la fruta no es un problema solo de los productores, sino suyo tambin. Es una de las plagas de insectos ms destructivas del mundo. Ataca a ms de 250 frutos incluyendo, nueces y vegetales; muchos de los cuales se cultivan en huertos caseros. El establecimiento de la mosca mediterrnea en California podra devastar no solo la agricultura, sino toda la economa que sostiene el mercado laboral de California. Adems, hara ms difcil y costoso el cultivo de huertos caseros. Efectos de la mosca mediterrnea: Sus cultivos caseros seran menos apetecibles y de peor calidad. Frutas caeran de los rboles frutales antes de tiempo, y solo para pudrirse en el suelo. Los agricultores tendran que aplicar ms pesticidas para mantener sus cultivos libre de gusanos. La jardinera orgnica no seria posible. Debido al mayor costo de produccin y menor rendimiento, en el mbito nacional, el consumidor gastara una suma adicional de $825 millones de dlares.

How You Can Help You have a personal stake in the effort to keep Medfly out. Heres how you can help: Dont bring or mail fruits, vegetables, or plants into California unless agricultural inspectors have cleared them beforehand. Medfly and other pests can hitch a ride on prohibited produce. Cooperate with any quarantine restrictions or rules that might be imposed because of a Medfly find in your area. That means keeping homegrown produce on your property. Allow authorized agricultural workers access to your property to inspect fruit and Medfly traps for signs of an infestation. If you must move fruits and vegetables from a Medfly-infested area, make sure theyre canned, baked, frozen, or preserved. Never remove fresh produce from your property when your area is under a Medfly quarantineyou could be moving maggots from your yard to an uninfested area.

PHOTO: NEIL WRIGHT, CDFA